Moment connections
Moment connections
(OP)
I would like assistance with a building I am designing. I am using SMF as the lateral force resisting system in the building, and would like to know if the connections between the non-seismic beams to column connection can be moment connections or do am I required to use shear connections. If I cannot use moment connections any reasons you can share would be valuable. Thank you for your assistance in advance.






RE: Moment connections
RE: Moment connections
I believe KootK indicated you can have moment connections however you will need to evaluate the stiffness of the moment frames you are creating via these moment connections and compare it to your main LFRS moment frames.
RE: Moment connections
Sorry for repeating the post, i literally signed up for this forum yesterday, and i could not find the original thread.
RE: Moment connections
for ease, here's a link to the original thread thread726-433944: For a special moment frame building non-seismic connections